FF0162 God Bless the USA

Happy Tuesday, peeps! I have a fun card that I made with some new goodies, as well as some old ones! I recently got this patriotic background stamp and couldn't wait to ink it up!  Here we go:

I stamped it in Early Espresso on a Basic Beige card, then did some blending with Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Misty Moonlight, Night of Navy, Crumb Cake and Pecan Pie inks to give it a vintage look.  I diecut two stars and layered them together, then created the "USA" with Cherry Cobbler, Basic Beige and Misty Moonlight cardstock and the Mini Alphabet dies:

On the inside, I stamped two sentiments from a really old Waltzingmouse set called USA 1776 in Real Red and Misty Moonlight, then added the fireworks in Sahara Sand:

In hindsight, I wish I had shabbied up the "USA" a little bit!  But it will have to do for now!  And I think this fits the bill at Festive Friday; I've got red, white, blue, and fireworks!

Thanks so much for visiting today!

Eden is doing a little birdwatching.....can you see the bird out in the yard?

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Land of the Free (Honey Bee), USA 1776 (Waltzingmouse)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Basic Beige, Misty Moonlight, Cherry Cobbler, Basic White
Ink	Early Espresso, Misty Moonlight, Night of Navy, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Sahara Sand (ret)
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Mini Alphabet Dies, Blending Brushes, Stitched Star Die (Paper Rose), Star Punch (ret), Sponge Daubers

PP595 Graduation Congrats

Happy Sunday, peeps, time for a new Paper Players challenge with Claire as our hostess! She's got a fabulous color challenge, and it couldn't have come at a better time for me!  Check it out:

We're headed to a graduation party for a young man in our church, and he is going into the army!  So this patriotic color challenge was perfect for what I had in mind!  Here we go:

I loosely used the sketch only from Fusion:

I used the star as my circular focal point, and the little bursts in the background are from the Sentiment Silhouettes dies, which coordinate with the Charming Sentiments, which I also used for my sentiment.  This is such a great bundle!!!  The star is from a really old Waltzingmouse set called USA1776.  It has great patriotic images in it and I simply stamped the diamond shapes in the challenge colors, cut them out and pieced them together to form the star:

Since it's for a young man, I didn't put a lot of fussy embellishments on it, just added some Pacific Point DSP and a wee little resin star to the center.  Here's the inside, again using sentiments from Charming Sentiments:

Of course, he'll be mostly interested in what's INSIDE the card, right?!  LOL!  I hope you'll find some inspiration from our color challenge...check out what the DT created at the Paper Players blog...they're not ALL patriotic!  You can use these colors in lots of ways!  Share yours with us there too!

Cassidy participated in a big karate shindig yesterday.....she said she "sort of" had a good time.  I don't know...kind of looks like a fun time to me:

Thanks for popping in today---enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Charming Sentiments, USA1776 (Waltzingmouse Stamps, ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Pacific Point, Real Red, Pacific Point DSP
Ink	Pacific Point, Real Red
Accessories	Resin Star, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Sentiment Silhouettes

AHSC 449 Peace Shaker Card

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  I have a fun shaker card for you today and it uses the sketch from Atlantic Hearts:

And here we go:

I started by making the shaker portion, using one side of a SU clear envelope as the front of the shaker, adhering it to a piece of printed paper on three sides of the back, filling with glitter and sequins, and then adhering the fourth side closed. I diecut three funky trees and adhered to the front, then attached the whole thing to a scalloped piece of Crumb Cake:

I embossed a piece of white cardstock with a Darice snowflake embossing folder, then adhered it to a Merry Merlot card base.  A wee bit of grosgrain ribbon and Linen thread formed a bow for the top. I stamped a really old Sweet & Sassy sentiment for the front and an equally old Waltzingmouse sentiment went on the inside:

This card really is prettier in real life than it shows in the photos!  You'll have to take my word for it!  Thanks for visiting today!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Holiday Greetings (Sweet & Sassy), Compliments of the Season (Waltzingmouse)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Thick Basic White, Crumb Cake, Merry Merlot, Wonderland DSP (Kaisercraft)
Ink	Merry Merlot
Accessories	Linen Thread, Grosgrain Ribbon (Papertrey), Ice Glitter (ret), Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Alpine Dies (Tim Holtz), Snowflake Swirl EF (Darice), Bitty Banners Dies (ret)

Retro Rubber 159

Hey everyone!  Tuesday brings us a new Retro Rubber challenge, where we use stamps that are at least a year old!  This week is Anything Goes! 

I have a binder box of stamps that are too big to fit into standard size clear cases, so I tend to "forget" about them since they are not in full view!  I pulled out a really old Waltzingmouse stamp set (probably from around 2010) called Country Labels 4 to create my card today:

I began with three of the colors from Sunday Stamps as well as the sketch from Try Stampin on Tuesday, although I chose not to make a see-through panel:

I found some pretty peach-colored DSP for my top layer, then stamped the sentiment and border in Strawberry Slush ink; I knew I had matching dies and after much searching, tracked them down in one of my drawers, LOL!

The horizontal panel, which was a small piece of striped DSP I salvaged from my scrap bin, was stamped with some tiny flowers from a past Paper Pumpkin set, and embellished with some Crinkled Seam Binding as well as a Strawberry Slush scalloped border:

The inside was stamped with another set of images from the same Waltzingmouse set, then I added a couple more branches from the Paper Pumpkin set:

I hope you'll play along with our Anything Goes challenge this week at Retro Rubber!  Just remember to use older stamps and tell us their approximate age!  Can't wait to see what you create! Thanks for popping in today!

A visitor to my back yard bird feeder....she came by several times, in fact! She is probably the same one who walked up our driveway a couple of weeks ago!

We just never know what we'll see when we look out our door!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps."  Proverbs 16:9

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Country Labels 4 (Waltzingmouse), Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Strawberry Slush (ret), Felicity DSP (BoBunny), I Am DSP (Simple Stories)
Ink	Strawberry Slush, Blushing Bride
Accessories	Crinkled Seam Binder
Tools	Big Shot, Labels Dies (Nestabilities), Stamparatus

Snowmen Melt Your Heart

 Happy Monday, peeps!  I have a fun little Christmas card using a really old Lizzie Anne stamp:

The Inkspirational and Little Red Wagon challenges both feature snow, and Hand Stamped Sentiments has a color challenge:

I stamped the snowmen in Misty Moonlight and colored them in with Blends, then added some glitter:

After diecutting it with the Nested Stitched Label dies, I mounted it on a Misty Moonlight cardbase which was stamped with some snowflakes from a retired SU set, and embellished it with some Old Olive ribbon and glimmer snowflakes.  Here's the inside:

I'll add it to my stash for next year!  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Punch (ret), Snowmen (Lizzie Anne), Compliments of the Season (Waltzingmouse)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Misty Moonlight, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer
Ink	Misty Moonlight, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Craft White
Accessories	Old Olive Ribbon, Dimenisonals, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Nested Stitched Labels Dies, Blends, Snowflake Dies (Shady Lane)

Majestic Deer

 Hi stampers! Another quick post today...I am still making Christmas cards, I just can't seem to stop!  This one uses another pattern from the same DSP I used yesterday....there are so many pretty plaids and prints there, they just draw me in:

The TGIF challenge has a lovely basic sketch:

and recently while shopping at my local Amish stamping store, this set of deer dies just flew into my basket! I diecut this handsome guy in Basic Black cardstock and adhered him to a panel stamped with a sentiment from an old Waltzingmouse set called Compliments of the Season:

I love how he mimics the plaid deer on the DSP!  I added a few metallic pearls in each corner of the panel, mounted it on a Smoky Slate card, then stamped a pretty sentiment on the inside:

Thanks for popping in today!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for our last Paper Players challenge of 2020!  

Cassidy recently got a 3D pen and had fun making some ornaments with Mommy's help:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"Jesus said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.  Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned." Mark 16:15-16

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Jolly Bingo Bits (Snowflake, ret), Compliments of the Season (Waltzingmouse), Handy Christmas Greetings (Amy R)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Smoky Slate, Mad 4 Plaid DSP (Photoplay)
Ink	Memento Black, Craft White
Accessories	Silver Metallic Pearls
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Reindeer Family Die (Paper Roses)

CTS218 Merry

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!  The sun finally made an appearance yesterday and we had a lovely Easter service and a delicious potluck at my nephew's!  

I thought I would share the original card I made for the Paper Player's paper piecing challenge yesterday, but decided it wasn't CAS enough!  I used the CAS(E) this Sketch sketch for my layout:

And since I am really behind on my Christmas cards, decided to use an ornament stamp from an old Waltzingmouse stamp set for my creation:

I stamped the ornament on a scrap of Authentique's Christmastime paper, but the black Stazon didn't really show up very well.  Since I used my Stamparatus to stamp it, I cleaned off the stamp, re-stamped it with some Versamark ink, then heat-embossed it with some black embossing powder!  Much better! I did the same on some Brushed Silver cardstock for the ornament top, then fussy-cut them both out and mounted them on an embossed panel:

My sentiment banner is from a couple of different diecuts, and I stamped a little snowflake from a past Paper Pumpkin kit on each end just for fun!

 I love how this came out, but it isn't as CAS as I would have liked; it might not even be CAS for the sketch challenge, but that's okay...I like it just the same!

A few family pix from yesterday:

And Cassidy couldn't wait to hold Sawyer...although he doesn't like to be held very long!

Thanks for popping it...enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Waltzingmouse Stitched Christmas Ornaments (ret), Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Brushed Silver (ret), Christmastime DSP (Authentique)
Ink	Stazon, Versamark, Riding Hood Red (ret)
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Heat Tool, Black Embossing Powder,  Perfect Polka Dot EF (ret), Ribbon Banner Die (Concord & 9th), November Small Die of the Month (Spellbinders)

Hark The Herald Angels Sing

Hi peeps!  A little late today---I have a Christmas card for you using the Merry Monday challenge of a favorite Christmas verse as well as the CAS Christmas Card challenge, to use an ornament:

I pulled out an old Waltzingmouse stamp set, I am not even sure what it's called--maybe Stitched Christmas?--and stamped it on some patterned paper in Early Espresso, fussy-cut it out, then added a nativity die and a sentiment from Papertrey:

I popped up the nativity scene against the palm trees, then "hung" it on some Christmas Pines pine branches with some Tranquil Tide ribbon:

and stamped the pine branches again in the lower corner behind the sentiment:

I hope this is CAS enough!  I sure love these challenge themes!  Thanks for popping in today!

I forgot to post this before-the-bus "impromptu" stamping session...Cassidy made her teacher an Easter card:

and yes, there was snow on the ground...thankfully, it's all gone, but it's still way too cold for April!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Pines, O Holy Night (Papertrey Ink), Stitched Christmas (ret Waltzingmouse)
Card stock & Papers	Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Home for Christmas DSP (Kaisercraft)
Ink	Early Espresso, Tranquil Tide
Accessories	Tranquil Tide Ribbon
Tools	Big Shot, Nativity Die (Sugar Pea Designs), Mini Dimensionals